Another Major Injury Threatens WWE Fatal 4-Way Title Match

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Undertaker suffered a broken orbital bone, a broken nose and a concussion in his match last Tuesday against Rey Mysterio, which aired on Friday's episode of SmackDown. It is believed Undertaker suffered injury while taking the seated senton move by Mysterio during the match. He has been recommended to take time off due to the injury, which would take him past the Fatal 4-Wayevent. It's being said that it's a 50/50 chance as to whether he would be able to wrestle on the show. Due to the lack of depth on the SmackDown brand, Rey Mysterio has been called back to action to fill Undertaker's scheduled position on live events and television. He was set to take time off from the road for a scheduled vacation. No decision has been made regarding the World Heavyweight Championship bout at Fatal 4-Way, but logic would have Mysterio as the replacement if Undertaker can't wrestle.

Swagger to retain to face Taker at Summerslam then?

I'm glad the Taker looks like he might be out, I've just got zero interest in him anymore, he needs to be involved in Psychological feuds, thats his place, anything else is just poor, I want him to be in a long program with Punk, I also think Punk should have kept his hair until the Darkside finally defeated him.

If with taking time off he is 50/50 for Fatal 4 way, with MITB between that and Summerslam i would imagine Swagger retains at F4W and then has a gimmick match with Big Show at MITB, something that doesnt need Swagger performing a gutwrench powerbomb for the win, so that Swagger has a credible rule going against Taker at Summerslam where Swagger should retain as Taker cant do the quality of matches required on a regular basis for the strap.

If Taker were to return at Summerslam he will likely be the second big star to return at the PPV with Triple H also thought to be returning that night.

There was no reason for him to be in that match anyway, unless it was to do with star power, since all the big main eventers are on Raw, so they needed a big name to push the match.

boschbourne06 wrote:

Due to the lack of depth on the SmackDown brand

And whose fault is that? If they hadn't weighted the Draft so heavily in Raw's favour then the SmackDown roster would have had more depth, they wouldn't have needed Undertaker for Fatal 4 Way and Rey might actually be able to get some time off. How long has he put off that knee operation now?

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The latest word on The Undertaker is that he's 50/50 for the Fatal 4 Way pay-per-view main event. We should know more after tonight's SmackDown tapings. The talk this weekend was that Kane may replace Undertaker in the match if they don't go with Rey Mysterio.

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Reports are saying that Undertaker has a broken orbital bone and will be out all summer. The injury came about during his match with Rey Mysterio on SmackDown! last week.

No Summerslam then, having read the spoilers though it seems Kane has upped his game and Taker could be involved in a long feud with one of many possibilities during his return

Despite my belief of it being a Raw contract earned i wouldn't be too suprised to see WWE put Wade Barrett in the title match tbh